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Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide - Third Edition

You're reading from  Microsoft Power BI Quick Start Guide - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804613498
Pages 330 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Authors (4):
Devin Knight Devin Knight
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Erin Ostrowsky Erin Ostrowsky
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Mitchell Pearson Mitchell Pearson
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Bradley Schacht Bradley Schacht
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. Gaining Data Literacy with Power BI 2. Connecting to Data 3. Data Transformation Strategies 4. Building the Data Model 5. Leveraging DAX 6. Visualizing Data 7. Digital Storytelling with Power BI 8. Using a Cloud Deployment with the Power BI Service 9. Data Cleansing in the Cloud with Dataflows 10. On-Premises Solutions with Power BI Report Server 11. Other Books You May Enjoy
12. Index

Capturing report views with bookmarks

Cross-filtering, cross-highlighting, and Drill through filters make a big impact on how users consume the data in Power BI reports. Sometimes, though, you may want to ensure that users see the data in a very specific way that will truly show its impact, satisfy report requirements, or simply provide alternate views of the data.

You can guide report consumers in a very interactive way using Bookmarks and showing or hiding visualizations in the Selection pane. Using these options, you can make better use of the available canvas on each report page and still make it feel as if users have many choices as to how they will view the data.

The Bookmarks feature allows report creators to capture the view of a Report page. Bookmarks will save the current state of all filters, slicers, in-focus items, sorting, and spotlight visuals (more on that feature later in this section) on a page at the time when the bookmark is created. This allows users to return to...

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